training course manuals, Continuity of Operations - Introduction, Awareness Course, Program Manager, and Planning for Pandemic Influenzas (IS-520, IS-546.a, IS-547a, IS-548). IS-546.a - Continuity of Operations Awareness Course - This course introduces students to the concept of continuity planning. The course provides a brief overview of continuity, including its definition, the legal basis for continuity planning, the Continuity Program Management Cycle, and essential elements of a viable continuity program. Although this course directly addresses continuity requirements for Federal Executive branch organizations, the course is also useful to State, local, territorial, and tribal governments. At the end of this course, students will be able to: Define continuity of operations; Identify the legal basis for continuity of operations; Explain the Continuity Program Management Cycle; Describe the elements of a viable continuity program. IS-547.a Introduction to Continuity of Operations - This course is to be completed after taking the IS-546.a - Continuity of Operations Awareness Course. The IS 547.a course describes the Continuity Management Cycle and how it should be used to develop sound continuity of operations plans. Although this course directly addresses continuity requirements for Federal Executive branch organizations, the course is also useful to State, local, territorial, and tribal governments. At the end of this course, the participants will be able to: Define Continuity of Operations; identify the legal basis for Continuity of Operations; Describe the structure of the continuity planning team; Explain the continuity program management cycle; Identify the phases of continuity; Recognize the steps in the continuity planning model. IS-548 Continuity of Operations (COOP) Program Manager - This course describes the requirements for developing a continuity program as prescribed in Federal Continuity Directive (FCD) 1, Federal Executive Branch National Continuity Program and Requirements. The course covers program requirements and elements and support requirements and describes the roles and responsibilities of the Continuity Program Manager and other key players in developing a viable continuity program. Although this course directly addresses continuity requirements for Federal Executive branch organizations, the course also useful to State, local, territorial, and tribal governments. In addition, as a bonus, there are reproductions of over 140 vital current and legacy FEMA Emergency Management Institute (EMI) training course manuals - instructor guides and student manuals, with PDF conversions of web-based interactive course material. The documents cover categories including Incident Command System (ICS), National Incident Management System (NIMS), National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP), National Response Framework (NRF), continuity of operations, Emergency Operations Center (EOC), Emergency Support Function (ESF), exercises, emergency preparedness, hazardous materials, disaster assistance and individual assistance, earthquakes, animals in disasters, points of distribution (PODs), grants and eGrants, deployment, principles of emergency management, volunteers, radiological emergencies, Multiagency Coordination Systems, and more. This CD-ROM is packed with over 18,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems. Advanced search and indexing features are built into our reproduction, providing a complete full-text index. This enables the user to search all the files on the disk at one time for words or phrases using just one search command!

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